Dr. Makoto Mori

Biography

Makoto Mori, MD, PhD, is a cardiac surgeon specializing in coronary revascularization, valve surgery, advanced heart failure therapies, and heart transplantation with mechanical circulatory support. He completed his integrated cardiothoracic surgery residency at Yale School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Yale, he performs complex coronary, valve, and transplant operations with a focus on optimizing outcomes and driving innovation in advanced cardiac care. His academic work bridges clinical surgery and data science, integrating large-scale outcomes analysis, digital health tools, and artificial intelligence applications in surgery. Dr. Mori has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals and serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He is nationally recognized as an emerging leader in cardiothoracic surgery, having received the American Society Clinical Investigation Emerging Generation Award. His current research centers on developing multimodal AI systems for robotic mitral valve surgery and advancing precision-surgery paradigms through data-driven modeling and translational collaboration between engineering and clinical science.

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